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kongin

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    Comment #28836544

    You don't have to threaten to leave, you do leave.

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    Comment #28836249

    Damn, I forgot to renew my license for the live feed of current FSB operations.

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    Comment #28836202

    Here's BLM being infiltrated by the Russians to make Americans distrust the police: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/07/24/russias-d... They even followed my advice of …

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    Comment #28836078

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    Comment #28835967

    Twitter mob is perfectly acceptable since large portions of those groups are Russian bots aiming to destabilize the US.

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    Comment #28835405

    The yanks had the people die because they were so out of shape a flight of stairs is an existential danger to a minority of protests and police.

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    Comment #28834865

    Covid, like 9/11 is a Trojan horse being used to turn seemingly sane people into fanatics who will support any measure to defeat the enemy. Watching people I used to respect become…

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    Comment #28834843

    And yet we heard the same thing last December. Things aren't going back to normal, when Australia opens up regardless of vaccination status thousands of people will die if they are…

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    Comment #28834030

    Way back when I reached out to them for getting the actual blueprints for a light industry coop - modular open source welders? Sign me up! Got a reply along the lines of "we are wo…

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    Comment #28823863

    The reason why AWS got popular everywhere I worked was that you didn't need to get buying new hardware past ops. You just spun up your own, then when it was supporting half the bus…

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    Comment #28822603

    > Just look where the best and brightest CS graduates from top schools go to. Yeah, it's not google or facebook. The people who go there today went to Wall Street/law firms 20 year…

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    Comment #28822118

    It's kind of stunning that starting with fully open technologies we build another closed mainframe on top of it. All that's old is new again.

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    Comment #28817786

    I feel exceedingly stupid for never having thought about something so simple.

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    Comment #28817278

    You both overestimate and underestimate the intelligence of intelligence agencies.

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    Comment #28817005

    Yeah and it's been getting gentrified since. It sucks that a bunch of nimbys came here and threw everyone fun out. Hell even pg would get flagged off hn if he said the stuff he use…

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    Comment #28815601

    If you haven't read the article read it, don't just read the title. I have no idea if this is the type of thing they put as reading material in toilets in the pentagon (which I ful…

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    Comment #28815575

    > Tangentially related is the concept of a memetic hazard, although this would be more something that targets the collective hivemind rather than weapons that target individual hum…

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    Comment #28814745

    In 2006 SF was well on the way to world domination, google was the hottest place to work and a whole bunch of other things were cropping up. The long cold internet winter after 200…

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    Comment #28814675

    What's a good IRC channel for cs/maths/physics? After the freedone implosion I don't know where anything is any more.

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    Comment #28813960

    It reads like oldschool creepy-pasta from 4chan. The point isn't that it's true (it's not) the point is that it takes something that you've felt (online comments that can't possibl…

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    Comment #28813887

    This is the type of high quality tinfoil hattery I've missed. Wake up sheeple the lizzards are here!

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    Comment #28807479

    Signing packets is not a new idea. The problem still is that you have no way to authenticate on any layer above the hardware. Ham radio as is is stuck in the 1960s which given the …

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    Comment #28806596

    Different bands have different physical properties. One of the points of amateur radio is experimentation. Right now the old boys clubs that all ham radio organizations have turned…

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    Comment #28806310

    In universities Google and FB are now seen the same way as law firms and hedge funds were seen 20 years ago. A boring place where you go to have an upper middle class career and be…

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    Comment #28806226

    >Regarding mesh networking, you don't have to have encryption to do that. It could still be very interesting, you just have to know that people can inspect your transmissions. If t…